Professor Janet Dwyer, Director of the CCRI, has announced her decision to step down from the Director’s role at the end of this academic year. A recruitment process is underway to appoint her successor.

Rob Berry will be joined by colleagues Lucy Clarke and Kenny Lynch as guest editors of the Journal of Maps. Articles are now being requested for submission.

A new article written by Damian Maye and Julie Urquhart has just been published in the Journal of Rural Studies that seeks to examine the online discourses regarding sustainable meat consumption by analysing a range of 'hashtags'.

Rural and farming businesses in the South West are being asked how they are dealing with COVID-19 to explore the lesser-known area of rural resilience. The survey being conducted by the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE).

A number of CCRI researchers are authors of a chapter in a new book entitled 'Researching People and the Sea: Methodologies and Traditions'.

Next week, the Annual Conference of The Agricultural Economics Society will be held online on 29th & 30th March. Three researchers from the CCRI will be participating in a variety of roles.

Next month, Professor Damian Maye will be presenting at a Royal Geographic Society event that will be discussing the economic and social impacts related to COVID-19.

A new study of LEADER, commissioned by DG AGRI, is currently underway, led by a partnership of the CCRI in the UK, ÖIR (Austria) and ADE (Belgium). An online survey is available to collect experiences of those involved in LEADER.

The CCRI team have launched a mini-consultation for young people aged 18-25 years in eight rural areas across England. Participate to have your say and be in with a chance of winning our prize draw!